Optimal SAP Business Warehouse reporting performance requires regular monitoring and identification of a potential performance issues. In this book, you will learn the most important processes and tools that help identify bottlenecks and solutions to solve them. Dive into the fundamental aspects of data modeling to efficient ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) This book will quickly enable SAP BW professionals to apply the techniques covered in this book to improve performance with hands-on advice and screenshots. This complete guide to SAP BW performance optimization covers: - Quick gains in performance - Practical applications - Comprehensive coverage on performance optimization - Leveraging tools and utilities from ETL to reporting processes

Finally, a detailed reference that gives administrators expert instruction to analyze and optimize performance in SAP BW. All the BW basics are covered such as architecture and data modelling, plus the ins and outs of systematic performance analysis, as well as volumes of valuable data design tips. Readers get an in-depth introduction to SAP BW indices, statistics, and database optimizers and learn about the key aspects of reporting performance. Full-length chapters deal with aggregates as well as extraction and loading performance. Plus, of course, the mission-critical topics of compression and InfoCube partitioning are discussed extensively. The depth and breadth of the information in this book, together with practical guidance that you can use right away, gives administrators the tools to analyze and tune BW performance immediately. Highlights include: BW architecture, sizing, and data modeling System load analysis Indices and database statistics Reporting performance: OLAP Cache, query monitor and trace, BW Reporting Agent, front-end performance and network, BEx queries and Excel workbooks Aggregates Compression and partitioning Extraction and loading performance: Integration of data sources, data flow, communication and transfer techniques, Persistent Staging Area, performance aspects for load, data extraction, and data transformation processes Update of InfoCubes and ODS objects

As an administrator, your ongoing to-do list dominates your desk. Let us help: With this book, learn the daily, monthly, quarterly, and yearly administration tasks you should be performing, and how to perform them. This comprehensive guide will walk you through system setup and configuration to lay a sound foundation for effective data storage, and then teach you to employ performance tuning techniques to optimize system performance. Consult detailed best practices to learn how to create BW objects and run reports, as well as to effectively use jobs and skills profiles for system support. Advance your SAP BW system from a B-movie to a blockbuster.

This book is your guide for analyzing and optimizing ABAP source code. You ll learn about the analysis tools and performance-relevant technologies, and discover how you can analyze existing source code and enhance your programming style. This is the resource you need to ensure that your ABAP programs are fully optimized. 1 Analysis Tools After reading this book, you ll know when and how to use analysis tools properly including Code Inspector, performance trace, ABAP trace, or single records statistics. 2 Programming Technologies Get detailed information on parallel processing, internal tables, SQL data processing, and much more, and learn how these technologies affect performance. 3 Buffering Explore the different buffers that are available on the SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP, and learn the most important buffer options to avoid unnecessary database accesses. 4 Database Tuning You ll obtain a description of the database architecture and the technical background of database accesses, and master the tuning options for database accesses. 5 New Developments Learn from a comprehensive overview of the new developments in ABAP Release 7.0, EhP2, such as Transaction SAT, the innovations of the performance trace, and changes of internal tables.

If you're making the leap from SAP BW to SAP HANA, this book is your indispensable companion. Thanks to detailed pre-migration and post-migration steps, as well as a complete guide to the actual migration process, it's never been easier to HANA-ify your SAP BW system. Once your migration is complete, learn everything you need to know about data modeling, reporting, and administration. Are you ready for the next generation of SAP BW? Highlights: Implementation options Preparing for migration Step-by-step migration guide Post-migration steps LSA++ Data modeling Reporting Administration

See how SAP HANA has changed ABAP Whether you're studying for certification or just want to see what's new, you can learn to design simple and advanced SAP HANA applications with ABAP by using this comprehensive guide. Learn to enable code pushdown, use new Open SQL enhancements and CDS views, and integrate native SAP HANA objects. Use detailed programming examples to develop database procedures and optimize your applications. You'll be programming for SAP HANA in no time Basic Principles Explore essential SAP HANA principles like in-memory technology and architecture, the SAP Web IDE, and AS ABAP database programming. Advanced Techniques Learn to use tools like InfoProviders, EasyQuery Interface, and the Application Function Modeler for SAP HANA. Discover how to integrate geographical data from SAP HANA in ABAP programs. Optimizing Existing Applications Get step-by-step instructions to help you optimize existing ABAP applications, and learn how to speed up applications with SAP HANA. Highlights: Code pushdown SAP Web IDE Eclipse CDS views SQLScript Native SAP HANA object integration Open SQL enhancements Geo-information Text searches Error analysis

MDX (Multi-Dimensional eXpressions) is extraordinarily powerful, and is used for both self-service reporting and advanced analytics. If you are going to do multi-dimensional analysis, you have to know MDX. MDX enables business users to perform analyses and generate reports that are next to impossible in any other query language, such as SQL, or even in BEx queries. This is the complete guide to generating effective reports and solving business problems using MDX in NetWeaver BW. First, the author introduces you to this extraordinarily powerful query and calculation language for both advanced analytics and self-service reporting. With expert guidance, you'll explore the idiosyncrasies of the MDX language and understand what object(s) each function takes as inputs and what they generate as outputs. Then, get an in-depth look at self-service reporting and analytics with MDX and how well these tasks are accomplished depending in large part on the modeling of InfoCubes. You'll find out about techniques for improving query response time, including use of the SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator.Finally, you'll also learn about the recent and substantial enhancements to the SAP NetWeaver BW MDX engine, the MDX-based OLAP BAPI, and the OLAP Data Access (ODA) component in SAP BusinessObjects.

This step-by-step developer's guide has everything you need to build SAP HANA-optimized ABAP applications. Explore the environment and tools you'll be using and master development techniques that govern the code-to-data paradigm in SAP HANA. Then jump into backend programming using ABAP Database Connectivity, SQLScript, ABAP-managed database procedures, core data services, and more. Once you've coded your apps, maintain them with runtime statistics, traces, and code analysis. Build it your way! a) Getting Started Begin by exploring the architecture and features of SAP HANA, and setting up your development environments, including SAP HANA Studio and ABAP Development Tools. Understand the code pushdown techniques that govern ABAP development on SAP HANA. b) Database Programming Create, execute, and manage SAP HANA database procedures using native SQL, ABAP Database Connectivity, SQLScript, ABAP-managed database procedures, and more. c) Modeling Use calculation views and CDS views to model SAP HANA data. Create business objects with the Business Object Processing Framework (BOPF). d) Optimizing Applications Use runtime statistics, ABAP and SQL traces, ABAP code analysis, and system-wide analysis tools to make sure your ABAP applications are performing efficiently. 1) SAP HANA 2) ABAP database connectivity (ADBC) 3) ABAP-managed database procedures (AMDP) 4) SQL and SQLScript 5) Data modeling 6) Core data services (CDS) 7) Native SQL and ABAP SQL 8) Business object processing framework (BOPF) 9) ABAP Test Cockpit 10) Runtime statistics and analysis 11) SAP BTP, ABAP Environment

Managing your SAP data in Microsoft Excel? This is your guide to using SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office! Get started with the basics, from creating your first workbook to navigating through reports. Then, follow step-by-step instructions to process data, analyze data, develop planning applications, customize reports, and work with tools such as formulas and macros. Including details on troubleshooting, UI customization, and more, this book is your all-in-one resource! In this book, you'll learn about: a. Reporting and Data Analysis Learn to work with reports in SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office: define parameters with prompts, adjust formatting and styles, and extend reports with local data. Filter, sort, and display your data using hierarchies, and refine data analysis with simple and advanced calculations. b. Planning Use your SAP data to develop planning workbooks. Plan your data both manually and with functions and sequences. Understand key settings for cell locking, the planning model, and more. c. Advanced Features Take your skills to the next level. Write formulas to use in your reports, and create and use macros in your workbooks, including steps to use API methods, callbacks, and design rules. Highlights include: 1) Workbook creation 2) Report navigation 3) Prompts 4) Data processing, organization, and analysis 5) Planning applications 6) Report customization and formatting 7) Formulas 8) Macros 9) Configuration 10) Troubleshooting